单词 | cucking-stool |
释义 | cucking-stooln. Obsolete exc. Historical. An instrument of punishment formerly in use for scolds, disorderly women, fraudulent tradespeople, etc., consisting of a chair (sometimes in the form of a close-stool), in which the offender was fastened and exposed to the jeers of the bystanders, or conveyed to a pond or river and ducked.For full account of its history, see Dr. T. N. Brushfield's Obsolete Punishments, II. The Cucking Stool, in Jrnl. of Archit., Archæol., & Hist. Soc. of Chester, vi. 203 (1857–9). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > stool or ducking-stool cuck-stool1200 thewc1273 cucking-stoolc1308 stoolc1308 pining-stoolc1400 scolding stool1474 tumbrila1513 cuckle-stool1592 ducking-stool1597 gum-stool1623 trebucheta1641 gumble-stool1653 gogingstool1679 ducking tumbrel1688 1215–70 in Borlase Hist. Cornwall I. 303 Brawling women..undergo the punishment of the ‘Coking Stole’.] c1308 Sat. People Kildare 100 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 155 Brewesters..beþ i-war of þe coking-stole, þe lak is dep and hori. c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 477 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 345 The pilory and the cucking-stol beth i-mad for noht. 1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 6 §1 To be sett upon the pillorie or the Cukkyngstole Man or Woman as the case shall requyre. 1534 in Boys Coll. Hist. Sandwich 684 [Two women] to be placed in the coqueen stool, and dipped to the chin. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xi. i. 228 Scolds are ducked upon cuckingstooles in the water. 1633 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Second Pt. (1721) II. App. 57 She was committed..to be duck'd in a Cucking-Stool at Holborn-Dike. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 217 When Pudding-Wives were launcht in cockquean Stools For falling foul on Oyster-women's Schools. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 169 She..shall..be placed in a certain engine of correction called the trebucket, castigatory, or cucking stool..now it is frequently corrupted into ducking stool. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed ix, in Tales Crusaders I. 173 Beware the cucking-stool. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1308 |
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